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write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

What is spoken here employs the shadow of the Law to reference that much
fuller work accomplished in Christ. Every type and shadow we find in Moses has a
much fuller, richer, more substantial fulfillment in Christ.
Yahshua does not bring us under the rule of Yahweh by taking a copy of the Law
of Moses and placing it in our hearts. He does something profoundly greater. He takes
the very heart and mind of the Father and reproduces them inside of those born of the
Spirit. That new spirit part of our being that is received at the new birth yearns
always, and only, to know the will of the Father and to do it. The mind and thoughts
of God are communicated to us by means of the Spirit of God discoursing with the
spirit birthed in us.

I Corinthians 2:11-16
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is
in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now
we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,
that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These
things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the
Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who
is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For
"who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have
the mind of Christ.

The Law contains only a shadow of the good things to come. The fulfillment, the
substance to which the Law points, is vastly fuller.

Hebrews 10:1
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very
image of the things...

Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect
to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a shadow of
what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

It is a great mistake to believe that the substance realized in Christ is merely a
copy of the shadow. When I stand outside in the sunlight, my body casts a shadow.
Suppose I was to capture that shadow and give it to someone. They would be able to
tell some things about me, but their knowledge of me would be incomplete.
Suppose then I was able to give the person my very own being. Imagine even that